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In the Boston of the future, some things will remain the same - including Red Line cars, just a little rustier

By adamg on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:40am
The Longfellow in 2052 according to new TV show

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A new show called Orphan Black: Echoes, which is just like "Orphan Black," only sideways, is set in Boston in 2052, as Brad Searles discovered.

And as you can see from this screenshot from one of the trailers downtown and Beacon Hill will look a tad different in 28 years, so get cracking, developers. But the Red Line will always be the Red Line, even if now a bit rusty on top.

The New England building on Boylston will still be there, as will the Hancock, which will, however, be overshadowed by something that looks like a series of giant pop tops:

Back Bay in the future

Kenmore Square will also be filled with giant swervy sex toys, but, whoops, they left out the giant WHOOP air beacon.

Kenmore Square

All those new buildings will, of course, require new schools for all the future kids, such as Thomas M. Menino High School:

Woman with cushion from Thomas M. Menino High School

Compare to:
Boston gets destroyed by monsters.
Boston gets destroyed in a nuclear war.

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Comments

By cybah on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 12:31pm.

I give them credit for these skyline views. Looks like they actually did a little bit of homework to figure out where to put the fake high rises. The pic of the Copley Sq area is spot on compared to whats in those locations today, which is nothing, a parking garage, or the pike.

Also LOL at Thomas M Menino High School LOL

By jmeltzer on Tue, 07/23/2024 - 2:51pm.

Are you saying that right now there _isn't_ a Thomas M. Menino High School? That would be a shock.

By Friartuck on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:24pm.

A full 2 lanes of traffic on the inbound side of the Longfellow! That's a world I want to live in.

By cybah on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 5:18pm.

But we have those today.
I just checked Google Maps to make sure. Unless it changed recently.

By Friartuck on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 7:09pm.

2 weeks ago, with lots of green paint and them expands back to 2 lanes at the circle

By Lane Straddler on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 5:22pm.

Yah, there's zero difference between the fictional show teaser pic and today's reality.
3 lanes. 2 inbound, 1 outbound.

By Rwgfy on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:38pm.

Is Boston Common safe in this fiction?

By cybah on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:50pm.

I wonder if in this fiction there's some dude who writes on a local news website under the comments section playing the peanut gallery in 2058.

By anon on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:49pm.

Acknowledged immortality of Red Line trains, built by a race of giants in a previous age.

Mandatory floaties for schoolkids?

Oyster farming in the Back Bay?

Logan is a submarine base, giving us Saugus International Airport?

And back to just one road in and out of downtown, the Dawes Horseway.

By Neal on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 7:32pm.

Acknowledged immortality of Red Line trains, built by a race of giants in a previous age.

In this fantasy they're the same hodgepodge of Red Line cars we have today, with the T still waiting for the fourth CRRC set to be delivered from Springfield.

By Angry Dan on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:02pm.

All those new buildings will, of course, require new schools for all the future kids

Pretty sure that's all vacant lab space - no schools required, just tax deductions.

By CH on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:04pm.

I see the FAA height limits will be gone by then, which is great news! Do they build a new airport further away, or are fixed-wing aircraft phased out for something that doesn't need runways?

By adamg on Tue, 07/23/2024 - 10:02am.

Fall away pretty quickly as you move away from the harbor.

The original plans for a skyscraper in Winthrop Square called for an 80-story building, the Tommy Tower. See a couple of renderings (one in exciting Mooninite-vision).

I'm more concerned about all the skyscrapers extending into the South End. Columbus Avenue will never be the same.

By Suldog on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 4:09pm.

STILL no flying cars? What the hell.

By xyz on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 5:24pm.

In this town? Possibly for the best.

By Kinopio on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 6:38pm.

Drivers around here can’t handle left and right, what makes you think they could manage up and down as well?

By blues_lead on Tue, 07/23/2024 - 9:23am.

We know they can't handle up and down.

Today's example:
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/todays-most-embarassing-storrowing-dri...

By Plen-T-Pak on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:22pm.

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By SmallJB on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 5:07pm.

That they didn't see fit to actually film this in Boston.

By adamg on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 7:26pm.

All the good spaces were already filled by productions using Boston as a fill-in for New York.

By jmeltzer on Tue, 07/23/2024 - 2:53pm.

Providence, maybe?

By SmallJB on Wed, 07/24/2024 - 12:51am.

Toronto or Montreal. No joking.